Tag: tribally run school
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Via Indian Country Today: New School, New Vision for Isleta Pueblo
Isleta Pueblo has taken over the Isleta Elementary School, which since its founding in the 1890s had been under the control of the federal government. The difference in school morale and the children’s behavior, say school officials, is already evident. And it was certainly easy to see the day ICTMN visited—bubbly, friendly, well-behaved children, smiling…
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Via Edweek.org: Stakes High for Bureau of Indian Education’s Overhaul
An excerpt: A U.S. Senate report from 1969 describes the federal government’s failure to provide an effective education for Native American children as a “national tragedy and a national disgrace” that has “condemned the [American Indian] to a life of poverty and despair.” Nearly 50 years later, little has changed, in the view of advocates,…